Finding Element ID of Shared Parameter

Hello,

Can someone please tell me how I can get the element ID of a shared parameter.

I have managed to find all the curtain panels in my project and isolate one, I have then been able to found all the possible paramters for that curtain panel and I have then married it up to the one I want using:

Name = param.Definition.Name

But when I try and use ElementId = param.AsElementId();

It return a value of -1 but I want the 6 digit code that usually comes.

Just param.Id should give you what you want. It will be a ElementId, but you can cast to a string if needed.
There is also a Paramter.Id node if you don’t want to do it in code.

You need the ParameterElement to get it’s ElementId:

Here’s an example:

import clr

#Import the Revit API
clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
import Autodesk
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *

#Import DocumentManager and TransactionManager
clr.AddReference('RevitServices')
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager

#Reference the active Document and application
doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument

fec = FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(ParameterElement).ToElements()

output = []

for i in fec:
	name = i.Name
	if "Ifc" in i.Name:
		output.append([i.Id, i.Name])

OUT = output
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